Modern Figurative Photography
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Model Circus Building Recaptures the Past - Vintage Photograph -Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Model Circus Building Recaptures the Past - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Middle-class American Woman - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Middle-class American Woman- American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American life in the 20t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Crucifixion, S. Andrea Church, Pistoia - Vintage b/w Photograph - Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Crucifixion, S. Andrea Church, Pistoia is an original photograph taken in S. Andrea Church, Pistoia, Italy, realized by an Anonymous photographer in the early 20th Century.
Titled on...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Ancient Japanese ethnographic photos from Nagasaki - Albumen Print - 1880s/90s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Japanese ethnographic photographs from Nagasaki is a set of 8 original vintage albumen prints on single cardboard: 26 x 34 cm.
Four images in the front and four on the rear ...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Bowling Green' 1960 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Bowling Green'
circa 1960: Playing a game of bowls at the Newport Casino. In action Captain Edward L Robertson, right Buddy Bombard a noted America's ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Mao Zedong Funeral - Vintage Photo - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Mao Zedong Funeral is a vintage photo, realized in the 1976.
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$81 Sale Price
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'Esther Williams' 1962 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Esther Williams'
Esther Williams, American aquatic actress and former swimming champion, relaxing in a Florida swimming pool, 1962.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estat...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Old days Photo - Column in San Marco Venice - Vintage Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo -Column is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including hist...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Palazzo dei Cesari - Vintage Photo by Ludovico Tuminello - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo dei Cesari is a vintage print in salt silver realized by Ludovico Tuminello in the early 20th Century.
Titled on the lower.
Good conditions except for some foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Anna Magnani - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Anna Magnani - Vintage Photo is a vintage b/w photographic print on single-coated paper, realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
Anna Magnan...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
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Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$126 Sale Price
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Vintage Photograph of a Painting by Beppe Guzzi - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Photograph of a Painting by Beppe Guzzi is a black and white vintage photo realized by an anonymous artist in the 20th Century.
Good conditions except for some minor fixings.
The a...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
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Fascism in Italy - Exercises with Wooden Hoops - Vintage b/w Photo - 1934 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photo from Italian Fascist period, by Gherlone, Turin.
Good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$270 Sale Price
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'Castel Bonifacio' 1984 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Castel Bonifacio'
August 1984: The castle overshadows the marina at Bonifacio (Boniface), on the Mediterranean island of Corsica.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate...
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1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Eden-Roc Pool' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Eden-Roc Pool
1976
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate
CAPTION: Guests by the pool at the ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Culture and Lifestyle in Italy - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Exhibition - Life in Italy in 1960s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and artistic events in ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$58 Sale Price
25% Off
Culture and Lifestyle in Italy - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Exhibition - Life in Italy in 1960s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and artistic events in ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$58 Sale Price
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Klaus Maria Brandauer - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$103 Sale Price
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Carlo Hintermann - Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Carlo Hintermann - Vintage Photograph is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$126 Sale Price
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Ancient views of the Temple of the Queen of the Sky in Canton - 1890s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient views of the Temple of the Queen of the Sky in Canton is a set of two original vintage Albumen prints on single cardboard: 26 x 34 cm.
Image 21.5 x 27 and on the rear 21.5 x...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$432 Sale Price
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Slim Aarons 'Monte Carlo Beach Club' 1970 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Monte Carlo Beach Club'
Guests around the pool at the Monte Carlo Beach Club, Monaco, August 1970.
Paper size 48 x 72 inches / 122 x 183 cm
Esta...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Women Working Italtel - New Technologies - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Women Working Italtel -New Technologies in the 1970s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s in Italy
Good conditions an aged.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$81 Sale Price
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy is a vintage photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$252 Sale Price
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'Corfu Picnic' 1987 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Corfu Picnic'
Ina Verogiani, Lisa Pallavicinos, Daphne Pallavicinos, Nicolas Pallavicinos and Yolande Scheres picnic in an olive grove on the Greek island of Corfu, 1987.
Paper S...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'Sunbathing In Antibes' 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Sunbathing In Antibes' 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Dani Geneux (left) and Marie-Eugenie Gaudfrin sunbathing at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
'Top Lunch' 1972 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Top Lunch'
From left to right, Mrs Bedford (Dysie) Davie, Mayor Earl E T Smith, Charles Munn (Mr Palm Beach) and Lilly McKim Pulitzer Rousseau, designer of the famous Lilly shift,...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cambodian Dancers - Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
The Dancers
by Justin Creedy Smith 2001
In the Krousar Thmey centre for homeless children in the Phsar Depot area in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) the children l...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Guests At Villa Nirvana' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Guests At Villa Nirvana' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1978.
Produced from the or...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
'Caribbean Patio' 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Caribbean Patio'
A woman relaxing on a patio, Caribbean, March 1973.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Print...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'St Tropez Garden' 1977 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'St Tropez Garden'
An elegant woman poses in a garden in St Tropez, August 1977.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Old Days - Historical Photo - The Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, silver salt print, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical mome...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$72 Sale Price
25% Off
The Old Days - Woman on the Snowy Road - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Woman on the snowy road is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal fam...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$90 Sale Price
25% Off
Technology, Computer Generation - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Technology, computer generation is an original photograph realized by Uliano Lucas.
With the stamp of the photographer on the rear.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
25% Off
Vending Machine - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vending Machin - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American life in the 20th Century.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$144 Sale Price
25% Off
Palazzo Schifanoia - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo Schifanoia - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century, realized by Anderson.
Information in Italian on the lower.
Good conditions, aged with...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Old days Photo - Castle - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - Castle is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including h...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$58 Sale Price
25% Off
Princess Margareth and Husband in London - Vintage Photograph - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Princess Margareth and husband in London - is a photograph realized in 1962.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
25% Off
Wedding Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong - Vintage Photograph - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Wedding Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong is a vintage photograph realized in 06/05/1960.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted in a well-b...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$202 Sale Price
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Princess Margaret and her Husband - Photograph - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Princess Margaret and her husband is a vintage photograph realized in 1962.
Good conditions.
Photograph by BIPPA London.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
25% Off
The Four Corners Press - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Four Corner.s Press - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American life in the 20th C...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Middle-class Life - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Middle-class Life - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American life in the 20th Century...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$144 Sale Price
25% Off
'Hugh Hefner' 1961 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hugh Hefner'
American publisher Hugh Hefner, founder of 'Playboy' magazine, surrounded by erotica at the Playboy Club in Chicago, 1961.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Vintage Photo - Skeleton - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo - Skeleton is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$72 Sale Price
25% Off
Exhibition - Life in Italy - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Exhibition - Life in Italy in 1960s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and artistic events in ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$63 Sale Price
25% Off
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Apostoli, Santa Lucia Church- 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Apostoli, Santa Lucia Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticu...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$58 Sale Price
25% Off
Porto Ricans to Full Self-Government- Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Porto Ricans to Full Local Self-Government- Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
American Farmers - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
American Farmers - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American life in the 20th Century....
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$144 Sale Price
25% Off
Porto Ricans to Full Self-Government- Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Porto Ricans to Full Local Self-Government- Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American life in t...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Porto Ricans to Full Self-Government- Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Porto Ricans to Full Local Self-Government- Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Porto Ricans to Full Self-Government- Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Porto Ricans to Full Local Self-Government- Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Porto Ricans to Full Self-Government- Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Porto Ricans to Full Local Self-Government- Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Barn - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Barn- American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American life in the 20th Century.
With th...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
25% Off
'Capri Holiday' 1958 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Capri Holiday'
Swimmers off the Italian island of Capri, 1958.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
P...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
S. Domenico Church, Siena - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
S. Domenico Church, Siena - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the early 20th century.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
War in Algeria - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
War in Algeria - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical events and p...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$72 Sale Price
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Professor Barnard visiting Policlinic Princess Grace in Montecarlo- 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Professor Barnard visiting Policlinic Princess Grace in Montecarlo black and white photograph realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$126 Sale Price
25% Off
'Smeralda Architect' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Smeralda Architect'
circa 1978: Architect Jacques Couelle at the Costa Smeralda, Karim Aga Khan's development in Sardinia which Couelle designed.
...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Historical Photo - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo is a vintage photo, realized in the Early 20th Century .
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$72 Sale Price
25% Off
The Old Days Photo - Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days Photo - Queen Elizabeth is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, royal fam...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Landscape - Vintage photo - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a vintage photo, realized in the 19th Century .
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$81 Sale Price
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Modern figurative photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Modern figurative photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Mark Shaw, Alain Le Garsmeur, and Terry O'Neill. Frequently made by artists working with Digital Print, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Modern figurative photography, so small editions measuring 0.79 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $22 and tops out at $115,000, while the average work sells for $1,800.